Installing Fedora 16 from USB

[Miguel Cardenas]

It is 8Gb, the iso 3.5Gb, it should be not the problem... it boots but
after boot it relases the usb image and continues installation from
internet :-/

Take care

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Miguel Cardenas <mfcardenas at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thanks, I will try again after it finishes the current internet
> installation and backup it with clonezilla just to know, if does not work
> just will restore the bk...
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:34 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Miguel Cardenas <mfcardenas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I've download Fedora 16 to install in onto my new notebook that comes
>> with
>> > no dvd drive... so I used liveusb to create a bootable USB with the
>> ISO...
>> > It starts the installation but then it says it does not detect a DVD
>> drive
>> > and it starts to install slowly via internet, so what is the case of
>> > generate the USB with the installation disk? Or what should I do so it
>> > installs from the USB?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help
>> >
>> It might be an idea to create a bootable usbkey with the netinst.iso
>> file rather than the live usb iso, and also have the DVD iso on the
>> usbkey as well, and then boot to netinst.iso and add a kernel line
>> parameter of the form repo=hd:device:path-to-iso where the path-to-iso
>> points at the DVD iso.
>>
>> Here "device" might be /dev/sda2 for the usb key or whatever is
>> relevant to your machine and the path is relative to the root of the
>> usbkey.
>>
>> I have not tried it with usbkeys for f16 but it is worth a shot - once
>> the install is in progress make sure you don't miss the bootloader
>> section and make sure that you carefully check or set that it will be
>> written to the hard drive and not the usbkey...... you may need to
>> switch the bios drive order when you get to that screen in the install
>> process.
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